Metroid GBA rumors deciphered...

I got to finally talk with our good friend, Ima Source from Nintendo today and they reassured the same standpoint as The Nintendo Project reported yesterday on Metroid for the Game Boy Advance.

NOE's news release that stated Metroid was being developed for Game Boy Advance was incorrect. Nintendo has not announced a Metroid game. Please visit www.nintendo.com for the official list of games in development for Game Boy Advance.

Nintendo of France mentions Metroid GBA along with Golden Sun... Two?

Believe it or not, even after NOA issued their statement saying that a GBA Metroid has not been announced, Nintendo of France has mentioned the game as an upcoming GBA release, along with...are you sitting down? Golden Sun 2. No other details or info available yet, but thanks to NintendoWeb for digging up this terribly interesting news.

Final Fantasy X is delayed to July and Square says that they will do their damnedest to get Final Fantasy IV-VI on the GBA.

Earlier today in Japan, Square held a meeting to discuss future projects with analysts. At the meeting, Square President Hisashi Suzuki commented that "the company will strengthen the Final Fantasy brand name." It seems the company is poised to do just that. With announcements regarding new FF games,... Read more...

Criterion will provide yet another game engine for GameCube developers to license.

Criterion Software has announced that it has been invited to join Nintendo's select group of GameCube middleware and tools partners. Who is Criterion and what does this mean you may ask? Criterion was founded in 1993 and is providing development tools for more than 230 development studios worldwide,... Read more...

Twin Galaxies is holding a console gamers tournament with a $10,000 grand prize. March 24th and 25th are the magic dates. Sign up today.

Twin Twin Galaxies just got in touch to inform us of its upcoming “Console Game World Championship” event, which will be the first live console competition held in America with $10,000 being awarded to victors. Hmmm, we might have to get Ty out to this event to win us some prize money. Word has it the guy is lethal at Perfect Dark. The press release from Twin Galaxies is as follows:

New screens of Bomberman Story, Megaman EXE and Monster Farm Mania from Gamers.com.

Just when the Planet staff thought it was safe to sleep, we’ve been hit with news out the warp pipe. Metroid, Dr. Mario 64? That’s only part of it. Posting oodles of new screens and specifics, Gamers.com have just provided even more reasons to salivate over GBA. With help from the magazines Dengeki... Read more...

NintendoWeb gets screens of Dr. Mario 64 and more info.

After Nintendo's announcement of Dr. Mario 64, we have Nintendo Web to thank for exclusive screens and information on this unexpected N64 title. The game will feature 4 player support and will be $29.99, making Dr. Mario 64 an irresistible purchase & the perfect remedy for the "Importing the GBA is... Read more...

The N64 release list has Dr. Mario on call...

The N64 is on its Deathbed—call a doctor! No, not Jack Kevorkian!!! Get Dr. Mario on the line!! We just got a surprising announcement from Nintendo. No, it wasn’t the promised “official statement” on Metroid GBA (yet things on that front are getting interesting) and instead pointed us to Nintendo's... Read more...

Consoles-France "reveals" that Metroid GBA will be a new game rather than a port of an old one ala Mario Advance.

OK, I'm gonna start off by saying that we here at Planet N2000 are filing this story under rumor. We have our doubts, for some reason or another. According to The Nintendo Project, Metroid GBA is under development. Also, it will be an entirely new Metroid game, not a port of a old one. The Nintendo... Read more...

Want to import a GBA before the US luanch? We're here to help.

Who wants a GBA? Ummm...stupid question. Nabbing one up at import time is going to be a bit tricky. Not only that but it looks like you will have to import a GBA plus at least one game. Hot off the heals of Buy-Rite's pre-order listing, National Console Support (a highly recommended import place on... Read more...

Justin comments on todays "letters" section at Daily Radar. A very interesting section with the recent Imagine Media vs. Nintendo lawsuit.

After their first volley of letters contained little to no criticism of anybody except Nintendo (they supposedly just took the first 20+ letters they got without looking at their content... uh yeah) it appears the angry masses made enough noise that last night's letters update included some major... Read more...

Nintendo reacts to Daily Radar's reaction regarding the Pokémon licensing dispute.

You know, sometimes Nintendo can make me very happy and this is one of those days. Of course info like a new 1080 coming down the pipe is all good and other little tidbits you pick up and aren't allowed to post are even better... but then to see something like this press release also puts a smile... Read more...

This link would work under normal circumstances...

Some of you who also frequent the Nintendorks website will surely have noticed that they're having some problems. Tech-head Jon Miller told me that they're having server troubles, and on top of that, his cable internet at home crapped out for a couple of days. No word on when things should be working again, but I'll let you know at that time.

Would you like to pre-order a Japanese Gameboy Advance? Well, get in here and plunk down some cash!

I know Billy has been looking for GBA info high and low for awhile & luckily thanks to a fine tip, we've finally come across some. It turns out that Buyrite is now accepting pre-orders for Game Boy Advance. The price for a GBA including Mario Advance is $199.99. Buy-rite claims that all pre-orders will be honored and that they will try (but cannot promise) to give you the color of your choice.

Penny Arcade tackles the Daily Radar law suit. a URL LINKS TO PN2K editorial

It's been a crazy couple days, what with the Metroid rumors and new game announcements. In the background of it all lurks the horror of the Stupid Story that Would Not Die. A few days ago, when Daily Radar (I'm not even gonna bother linking it,

read Justin's excellent editorial on the subject for more info

A Sequel to 1080º Snowboarding by Left Field of Excitebike 64 fame?? Sounds good to me.

Well, IGN Cube’s broadcast came and went and the boys revealed a scoop that caught us completely off guard—yet smiling all the same. Although Left Field aren’t making a new Excitebike yet (we hope they will sometime in the future) they will be taking care of development duties on a snowboarding... Read more...

Max admits that he is not, afterall, omnipotent. He also now owes all our readers a Coke.

Well, I'd like to say that as Editor-in-Chief of PlanetN2000, I am the ultimate Smarty Man of Smarty Men! Of course, time and again I am exposed for the phony I am -so it's a good thing I don't boast like that! Early this morning (and I mean like nearly 12 hours ago) I found out that Left Field Studios... Read more...

Sandbox Studios is making a GBA game that will use impressive vector graphics technology. MOVIE links to PN2k!

Young developer Sandbox Studios told me today that they are working on GBA games and will soon start on GameCube development. Their first Game Boy Advance game will be a 2D platformer somehow utilizing a very impressive vector graphics technology. I've uploaded the

vector demo

to our server... Read more...

Could Left Field be working on Excitebike? Maybe! Max thinks so & here's why...

OK, so IGN Cube announced last night that Left Field Studios is working on an all new Courtside game that may or may not involve Kobe Bryant and will be playable at E3 2001. That's great news in itself buuuuuut IGN Cube also mention Left Field studios have a second game in development for GameCube.... Read more...

Mr. Driller 2 for GBA launch. Mr. Driller = Good!

Oh man! The GBA love continues to flow. Namco has announced that they will have Mr. Driller 2 ready for launch on GBA! Yes, I am down with Drillin!

If you have a Dreamcast and like puzzle games you'll want this game. I've played the hell out of the DC version and would highly recommend this title. No word yet if this title will be reaching US shores...but in my opinion this is another great addition to the Japanese GBA launch line up.